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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
dir: Elia Kazan

COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (1952)
dir: Daniel Mann

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1951)
dir: Laszlo Benedek

COME BACK, LITTLE STREETCAR!
Panic #2, April/May 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Jack Davis

Combination of several plays that became dramas, particularly A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.

THE BLOB (1958)
dir: Irvin Yeaworth

ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958)
dir: Nathan Hertz

THE TALKING BLOB
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: John Severin

This was their parody of youth horror movies. The first use of Cracked's attempt at making the Talking Blob a recurring character. The original film also starred Steve McQueen, who's caricatured here.

Also an homage to Saturday Night Live's Land Shark sketches.

THE STAR TREK SAGA
MAD Star Trek Special, Holiday 1994
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Sergio Aragones

The cover promised a new Star Trek: Generations spoof. This must mean what they meant. All seven movies and four TV series were parodied last month, no need to go into them now.

STAR WARZ

STAR WARS (1977)
dir: George Lucas

(Sorry, folks. Every trailer I look for is the same one. Updated ones don't count)

Being Cracked, they were always beating properties into the ground and doing crossovers to sell copies, competing not just with MAD, but with other fan magazines. I already posted the ones they did with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Six Million Dollar Man

I'm sure everyone here has seen the movie, so I won't get into the plot. Those who can't follow along can just click “previous post” and also see all the versions MAD did.
STAR WARZ
Cracked #146, November 1977
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)

Sally Forth was a strip of contemporary Wally Wood.

They knew there'd inevitably be a sequel, and predicted what it would be in the next issue, also drawn by Severin.

Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Kirk (William Shatner) from Star Trek's Enterprise.

And even more...

CY-THREEPIU & ARTY-DITTO: A SOUVENIR ALBUN OF THEIR VISIT TO EARTH
Cracked #148, January 1978
a: Cosa Nostrand (Howard Nostrand)

IF THE CHARACTERS OF STAR WARS APPEARED IN OTHER MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: Powers (John Severin)

This is what I mean by beating things into the ground and crossing them over with everything else. Though Star Wars is one of the few times they didn't do a mash-up with Happy Days.

Cracked #154, October 1978
a: Howard Nostrand

And yet another crossover article after the sequel.

EXPLOITING THE STAR WARS FIGURES TO THEIR FULLEST
Cracked #174, December 1980
a:John Severin